If you're watching the new Harry Potter show, you should unfollow me. Maybe even block. We know supporting Joanne's work means hurting trans peeps. End of discussion. No support. Not even piracy is an excuse here. You can live without it.

Breaking my usual bsky etiquette to say full-throatedly that if you are acting like itch is anything other than a victim in this ongoing struggle with payment processors, you are a rube, a mark, and signaling that you will eat your own at the slightest opportunity. You are an untrustworthy dumbass

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Microsoft and Xbox aren’t just destroying the video game industry. They’re destroying the world. An entity that profits from the eradication of one group will eventually come for us. We need to stand in solidarity and unite against our common enemy. Boycott Xbox.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Let's be 100% clear on this, Microsoft is investing $80 Billion in AI. This is not conjecture or speculation, it is plainly in their own words back in January this year, they gutted a profitable games division because AI is the new shiny bauble. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

"Digital asbestos" is such an amazing description. I'll be using that going forward. 👀

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

if you are transgender: do not give up. no matter what. growing up in the 90s and 00s was so fucking lonely. there were no queer people around, only mocked on TV. i've seen what having peers and elders can do for your health and your happiness. survive for yourself. survive for your community. live.

It's hard to know what to say or whether it's even worth adding to the doom - what I will say is buy your trans friends' weird zine, their album, their art game - buy them a beer or a soda or a meal - give them some ko-fi money for doing absolutely nothing. We gotta protect trans kids and adults.

This video actually makes me sick. We cannot let this shit continue.

As someone taking part in the current Xbox / Microsoft boycot, I went back and forth a lot on how to handle covering, or not covering, today's Xbox Showcase event. My answer? I'm using it to fundraise for Medical Aid for Palestinians. www.justgiving.com/page/laurakb...

Happy Pride y’all! It’s such an important year for the love and solidarity to be overflowing.

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

If I see people playing this on Twitch or Steam - I will not discuss it with you, I will block you & remove you from my life. It's a simple request to not support the official terf IP. If you value your shitty wizard game more than the lives of trans people, then fuck off.

Hell yes. Reminder that 17776 is an interactive masterpiece that I highly recommend gamedevs read. It’s like a wild, playful, absurdist love letter to games as a meaningful part of life. It’s deeply funny and touching.

It’s kinda funny / harrowing that LLMs didn’t get smarter or less brute-force-y, we just got better graphics cards, and more comfortable with wasting obscene energy on what still remains the most overrated madlibs ever. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

burning down forests so that we can be wrong most of the time www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!

“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.” chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...

This is a hilarious way to say “we haven’t figured out how to make AI do anything useful”

Not sure there's ever been an artist I had a bigger turn around on in my life. Couldn't understand or enjoy any of his stuff when I was younger, but grew into a full on evangelist as I got older and learned how to absorb what he was putting into the world. Truly no one else quite like him. RIP.

i avoid commenting on celebrity passings due to the parasociality of the thing but David Lynch was an artist’s artist and a reminder to never explain yourself (when you don’t want to). one of the greatest filmmakers to ever do it.

The parade of useless tech-in-search-of-a-problem and rampant VC yes-man-ing has basically driven the Western tech industry into the ground. It's so embarrassing. I can't allow myself to think about where that funding could have gone or else I'd lose my mind

midjourney, chatgpt and all that other "AI" slop is realtime climate crisis accelerant. even if you don't give a fuck about creative people, take a look at the fires right now and consider your priorities

This feels like a very good time to remind people that trans rights are human rights, and that we need to stand for our trans friends (and especially our intersectionally marginalised trans friends) as much as we can manage. There is hope if we stand for it.

If we want any chance of surviving the interlocking crisis of climate collapse, information collapse, and the rise of fascism, we have to admit the reality that the billionaire class knows they are causing the climate collapse as well as fascism and are attempting to divert from that reality

I have watched Rot Economy stooges like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg destroy an internet that made me human, and I will never forgive them for what they’ve done to the computer. They peddle digital asbestos. They must be stopped. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, Sam, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

🚨PSA - This weekend: If you are gifting a Console (Xbox, Playstation or Switch) this year, carefully open the package & D/L any games (if they are digital) and do all system & game updates. ⏫ Repack it before wrapping 🎁 That way the recipient can get to fun faster🎮 Happy Holidays!

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

If you're cis, one thing I'd like to impart with regards to trans people is that you are being lied to on an almost unfathomable scale, from billionaires like Musk, to religious fundamentalist groups, to print and broadcast media, to entire governments, they're committed to spreading malinformation.

lots of americans understand how their healthcare system is fucked up but if americans collectively understood just how fucked up their healthcare system is compared with other countries there would be a revolution tomorrow

Immortality is without a such a special experience that you only get to have for a first time once, obviously. Whatever the developer releases next will always have my attention, and should yours.

Even with all of the push back, I think we are still greatly *underestimating* the damage that this current "AI" tech is doing. We were actually doing a respectable job of cataloging human knowledge and making it accessible to people. Now we are actively polluting it and making it useless.

The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.

remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?